Blog Post Pontypool- Danielle Alonso

While viewing Pontypool through the lens of Harold Innis’ analysis I would argue that the movie is an example of space bias rather than time bias. Innis describes space bias as the ability to share a message despite a geographical location. Compared to. Time bias that is solidified and not easily moved. During lecture we used the Pyramids as an example of something that is time bias

 

Seen in Pontypool the English language travels from person to person. Furthermore the sender (in this case Grant Mazzy) never has to be in the same physical space as the receiver (the listener) in order for the message (the virus).

 

While watching the movie I found that the loud beeping noise in the film helped me understand the space biases. However, I do understand that the beeping noise was by accident rather than done on purpose.

 

Do you think this noise helped show the space bias or possibly just an inconvenience when watching the movie?


Comments

  1. Grace MurakamiApril 5, 2023 at 9:18 AM

    Hi Danielle, great post! Funnily i also found the blairing noise from the speaking to act as a interesting element in the film! At first i thought that it actually was part of the movie, like a stylistic choice to communicate the influence of those infected words. Space bias is known to convey information to many people over long distances, but have short exposure times. In terms of the beeping noise, the intertsting thing is to consider what it could have been interpreated as communicating to each viewer. Each person could have had their own take on what the beeping conveyed, but as it seems for you and I, it showed this space bias. Thanks for the post!

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